Russian Constituent Assembly

The Russian Constituent Assembly was a democratically elected assembly that ruled Russia for just thirteen hours on 18-19 January 1918, when it was replaced by the new Congress of Soviets. The Constituent Assembly had 703 seats, and a mere 175 of its deputies were Bolsheviks. Vladimir Lenin decided to dissolve the assembly and replace it with a new Bolshevik-led congress, ending democracy in Russia.